Foo Fighters, sessions and media

Oh boy we've been having fun lately. On Monday we got the front page page of MX Melbourne, on Tuesday Melb Magazine wrote a piece about us, and on Wednesday The weekly Review had us in an article about the Awesome Foundation.

On top of that we've been loving filming sessions. The Messengers was a hit, going through the city on the 86. Johnny Rock and the Limits was filmed on Wednesday (online this weekend) and we're off again today to film the multi award winning Canadian band Hey Rosetta at 2pm today.

We also have to mention the success we've had in the quest to get Foo Fighters to Jam on a Tram as well. The number on our online petition keeps growing and the support we get from people around us is phenomenal. However, we need to keep at it! If you're not 'attending' the event, please do. And if you haven't invited your friends, please do that as well. We can assure you that we won't rest until we have Dave Grohl & co on a tram in Melbourne.

New Frankie & the Heartstrings video

As we can't get enough of music we thought it was appropriate to upload another clip from a past session. This time it's Frankie & the Heartstrings, who visited Oz a few weeks back, and their song Want You Back . The guys from Sunderland were loving it and the commuters did as well, especially the guy who in the middle of the clip walks up to Frankie (the singer), taps him on the shoulder and says "SUPER, SUPER". We just love those moments!

We hope you enjoy it, and Happy Commuting!

The Messengers

What a day to record a session! Brendan, vocals/guitar, from the band in question, The Messengers, found it fitting enough to have his birthday the same day as we recorded. Of course we made him a gift (yep, the present in the beginning is his), which we hope he found useful.

Another person to be happy was our filmmaker Hayden; you could almost think it was his birthday too. He had just received a new camera lens, which weighs a tonne but makes a tram with band look absolutely gorgeous.

The session itself didn't want to end. The commuters on the 86 didn't take no for an answer, so The Messengers just had to keep playing, and with the first ever keys on a Tram Session, they didn't disappoint! It was pop, it was blues and it was happy smiles everywhere!

Dead Letter Chorus

It was all set up for a comfy ride up the 86. When the unexpected happened, (and lets face it, it happens quite a lot to a project like Tram Sessions) another tram caught the eyes of Dead Letter Chorus' band members. And it wasn't just any tram, it was the old, beautiful, and slightly outdated City Circle tram who entered the stage. And as the band originates from Sydney I guess they thought it would be suiting to try the Melbourne version of Sydney's Monorail.

The night had more surprises in place for us. We had a stream of Melbournians, tourists (it seemed that Brasil was the most common country of origin) and country folks (perhaps Keyneton was the winner in this category) that thoroughly enjoyed the great tunes from our Sydney friends. For a while I think all tram passengers joined in on the tunes and they stepped closer and closer to where the action took place. Even a sneaky Dave Grohl got pretty close...

We thought that the session was so great that we decided to join the band for their album launch at the Northcote Social Club on the last day of September. After that night we went home with big smiles and a CD that's been on repeat for quite a few evenings now. We hope you enjoy the session too and please let us know your thoughts on Facebook.

Frankie & the Heartstrings

UPDATED: New video is online (see below) - Want You Back

They came all the way from Sunderland, UK, to Australia. They craved some serious sunshine after a grey summer in Europe. What they got? Well, just before we jumped on tram 112 it started to rain and it couldn't be more than 15 degrees in the air. Melbourne weather can be tough some times!

Lucky for us that Frankie & the Heartstrings are great chaps who doesn't say no to a challenge (playing on a bouncy tram in the wet spring of Melbourne certainly is one). As the band has been going great guns in Europe we had good following on our live feed on the website. One of those people was of course Tram Sessions co-founder CJ (now living in Sweden), who got really excited when he heard that the band wanted to play on a Melbourne tram with us. His Twitter fingers couldn't stop typing of excitement!

The session took place during the day this time around as the band was playing a gig at the Forum later the same day, together with WA friends Eskimo Joe. We can assure you that you'll hear more about the guys from Sunderland. Great music, great energy and they seem to love touring. A pretty good mix, don't you think?